Stalag Luft VI
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Background
Macikai POW and GULAG Camps is location of the German, later Soviet prisoner-of-war camp and the Soviet GULAG forced labor camp located near the village of Macikai (Matzicken) in German-occupied Lithuania and later, the Lithuanian SSR. The camp was opened and operated by Nazi Germany (1939â1944), and later became a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp No. 184 (1945â1948), finally transforming into a Soviet GULAG forced-labour camp (1945â1955).
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1943
Closed 1944
Figures from official sources · verified 28 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1943
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q12664084)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Stalag Luft VI. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stalag-luft-vi
"Stalag Luft VI." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stalag-luft-vi.
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title = {Stalag Luft VI},
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urldate = {2026-10-20}
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